Galatians 3:1

O ye Galatians, deficient in understanding! Who hath fascinated you? For lo, Jesus the Messiah hath been portrayed as in a picture, crucified before your eyes.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

In Context

2This only would I learn from you, Was it by works of the law, that ye received the Spirit? or by the hearing of faith?

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Cross References

Matthew 24:24For there will arise false Messiahs, and mendacious prophets; who will exhibit great signs, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Acts 6:7And the word of God increased, and the number of disciples was enlarged at Jerusalem greatly; and many people from among the Jews, were obedient to the faith.

Romans 2:8but to them who are obstinate and obey not the truth, but obey iniquity, to them he will retribute wrath and ire.

Romans 10:16But all of them have not obeyed the proclamation of the gospel. (For, Isaiah said: My Lord, who hath believed our proclamation?)

1 Corinthians 2:2And I did not govern myself among you, as if I knew any thing, except only Jesus Messiah; and him also as crucified.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 3:1

The apostle in this chapter, I. Reproves the Galatians for their folly, in suffering themselves to be drawn away from the faith of the gospel, and endeavours, from several considerations, to impress them with a sense of it. II. He proves the doctrine which he had reproved them for departing from—that of justification by faith without the works of the law, 1. From the example of Abraham's justification. 2. From the nature and tenour of the law. 3. From the express testimony of the Old Testament; and, 4. From the… Read the whole commentary →

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